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- From: kgk@martigny.ai.mit.edu (Kleanthes Koniaris)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Glock vs. Sig!?
- Message-ID: <9301250428.AA28006@zippy.cs.UMD.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 13:59:49 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Dear Readers:
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- I have an old Glock 17 (which I bought in 1986), with 1992 Trijicon
- sights. While I *love* my Glock, I am thinking of a second pistol;
- perhaps a collection of one pistol is too small, and our beloved
- Moderator's mantra is taking its toll (``Buy them all'' :).
-
- Anyway, given all of the "Sig, Sig, Sig," talk that I hear, I was
- considering a Sig P226 with K-kote and Sig-lights (Sig's tritium
- sights [which are also from Trijicon?]), in 9mm. But then, in a
- moment of lucid thought, I realized that for the price of a Sig, I
- could almost get two Glocks.
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- The natural question comes to mind, is the Sig better than the Glock?
- If so, why?
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- I know quite a bit about Glocks (I've even read Peter's book :), but
- relatively little about Sig's. Could a Sig lover provide *technical*
- reasons for why the Sig is as good as/better than a Glock? I don't
- want to hear "my Sig looks so pleasing that I stare at it all day, but
- the Glock is ugly that I recoil in horror, therefore the Sig is
- better."
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- In fact, there seem to reasons to suspect that the Glock is *better*
- built: I have heard that the Sig has welding, rivets, etc.; the Glock
- has none. I have heard that the Sig slide is cast (almost to shape)
- and then machined, while the Glock slide is cut from a solid piece of
- steel. Of course, the Glock does have sloppy tooling marks, but the
- actual method of construction seems superior. I have heard that the
- Sig coatings tend to wear, and that the weapon is easily prone to
- rust. (In a Glock? Never!)
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- So, Sig owners, please be so kind as to post *why* the Sig is so good,
- and please be so kind, if possible, as to *compare* to the Glock.
-
- ---kleanthes
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